Now that I’ve been a mother for awhile, I’m just starting to appreciate how amazing my mother was. Here are some of the amazing things she did: Made tiny homemade clothes for my Barbie Let me climb in bed with her when I had a nightmare Came to all of my basketball games (even when [...]
Had to share this amazing poem by Mary Karr (thanks to Cathleen Falsani, who posted this under “Meekness is Strength”). WHO THE MEEK ARE NOT Not the bristle-bearded Igors bent under burlap sacks, not peasants knee-deep in the rice paddy muck, nor the serfs whose quarter-moon sickles make the wheat fall in waves they don’t [...]